In a Canadian Press story about university costs, AIMS researcher Jackson Doughart says that while eliminating tuition is a bad idea, targeting subsidies to students from low-income families makes sense. HALIFAX — New Brunswick’s recent decision to follow Ontario’s lead by covering tuition for college and university students from lower income families has prompted a [...]
AIMS education author Paul Bennett is quoted in a CBC story about teacher misconduct. The Marketplace report reveals that the disciplinary process is inefficient and often hidden from the public. Read the full story on the CBC Marketplace website. Marketplace analyzed the [Ontario College of Teachers]'s cases [of alleged teacher misconduct] from the past [...]
A Telegraph-Journal editorial criticizes subsidy-induced job growth. Citing AIMS's "I'll take New England Anyday!", it recommends "freezing — and then cutting — marginal tax rates and ... removing barriers to private-sector job creation." Read the full editorial here. The idea of government subsidies going up in smoke is usually only a metaphor for wasteful spending. [...]
A Times & Transcript editorial references AIMS' study "I'll take New England Anyday!", counseling against subsidy-based job creation and recommending that hidden tax hikes, like higher gasoline taxes, be avoided. Read the full editorial here. The Gallant government seems to be having its struggles of late attempting to achieve the right tax balance for New [...]
In a story by the Telegraph-Journal's John Chilibeck, John Williamson argues against further subsidies to higher education. On the issue, Williamson doubts that governments "are prepared to cut in one area to hand more money to universities, particularly when the biggest beneficiaries of a university education are the students themselves." FREDERICTON • New Brunswick’s dismal [...]
Customs today reports on AIMS' study, "I'll Take New England Any Day!", authored by Mark Milke. The study compares tax regimes in Atlantic Canada with those in New England, our region's closest geographic competitor, with an eye to improving the Atlantic business environment.. You can read the full study here. A new report is calling [...]
In the Cape Cod Times, AIMS President Marco Navarro-Génie is quoted in a story about the advantages of the Atlantic time zone. He argues that "In the age of high-volume trading and high-fiber super speeds, milliseconds can mean money in transactions. This is actually a little bit of an advantage." PROVIDENCE, R.I. — As most [...]
By Bill Curry Last fall’s Liberal Party election platform is an obvious guide as to what the budget will contain. But much has changed since Oct. 19. Economists have repeatedly lowered their forecasts for economic growth and, as a result, the size of next year’s federal deficit is now expected to be three times as [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Associated Press) -- As most Americans brace themselves for losing an hour of sleep this weekend, some corners of the country are considering bold alternatives to daylight saving time. California has a bill that would ask voters to abolish the practice of changing clocks twice a year. Lawmakers in Alaska and nearly a [...]
By JOHN CHILIBECK Legislature Bureau Cutting corporate taxes to zero and eliminating all business subsidies are just some of the extreme ideas being floated to address New Brunswick’s bleak job situation. Statistics Canada’s latest labour market survey, released Friday, showed the province lost 5,700 jobs in February, most of them full-time. The number of people [...]